(ot) gearing up for PeekABoo ICU Tissues time

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I form-lettered this email, forgive the impersonal nature. It beats getting

mixed up on who/what list I've sent to.

It's July. That is Christian's birth month and next month is his death

month, for want of a better description. Since I have joined some new lists

upon learning has autism and since people have joined the lists we

now share since last august, I will explain what this is.

For those who know, it's time to start collecting again and I can send the

file for the labels again. If you need. just LMK

For those that don't, every year about this time, in honor and in memory of

my 6th child, that passed away at the young age of 13 months--we had next to

no warning-- I spearhead the effort to gather as many boxes of nice, soft

lotion tissues like Puffs and donate them to local hospital ICU's. I have a

logo and a trademark to go on a label to put on each box of tissues or purse

pack.. whatever you can afford. It came about from my nose being so sore

within the first 12 hours of being stuffed in ICU, by his bedside and of

course crying my eyes out and blowing my nose. My nose took 3 weeks to

recover, it got so sore from being wiped by that sandpaper they had to offer

me. Hence the logo " ... your heart hurts but your nose doesn't have to " ..

I had that idea at the hotel I believe.. or somewhere.. I remember telling

Christian about it, so maybe it wasn't. As I recall, he liked it. I briefly

started a NPO (non-profit organization) but that did not work out. It was

not the right time to do that yet. SO, instead, this is our effort. One day,

I would like it to be a full time job. After I have retired from active

momhood, I will pursue that.

You may either send me the boxes of tissues to take to the hospital where he

died or gather as many as you can and hit as many ICU's as you can. I would

ask please that you put a label or some way to mention him on the box so

that people know of our project. I see this as a grassroots effort and I

would like it to be in every ICU in the country and then in other countries.

That is the Great Vision of PICU Tissues. I thought it was a good title too

since the ward he was in was PICU and his favorite game was Peek A Boo.

We will be going there this year on August 23. My goal this year is to fill

the back of suburban with tissue boxes. They said size does not matter, they

will use every tissue. " no tissue gets wasted " .. if anyone happens to want

to go with, you are invited. I'll cry all over you and then we'll go drown

our sorrows at Cracker Barrel over a brownie sundae (which I couldn't eat

last year since I was hypoglycemic.. but actually, I think I did anyway)

Nita, and the crew: 15, Jon 13, 11, 9, 7,

Christian (RIP: 7/16/03 to 8/22/04), 2 and Isaac, 2/3/08

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I'm like a snapdragon: half of me has snapped and the other is draggin'